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Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
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The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.
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mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
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My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
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If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
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I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
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All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.
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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
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If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
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...at it's best fiction is medicine.
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I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.
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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
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